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Definition of Genus Cheilanthes
1. Noun. Small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Member holonyms: Lip Fern, Lipfern, Cheilanthes Gracillima, Lace Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cheilanthes
Literary usage of Genus Cheilanthes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... form members of the genus Cheilanthes published the same year. ... in the
interval between the printing of the genus Cheilanthes in Swartz' Synop. Fil. ..."
2. Ferns: British and Exotic by Edward Joseph Lowe (1868)
"This species is so different in many respects to the genus Cheilanthes, that it
has been called an Adiantum by Linnaeus, ..."
3. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"... that very little of novelty has been left for succeeding Botanists. In the
arrangement of the genus Cheilanthes in the Genera and Species ..."
4. With the Flowers and Trees in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1914)
"The genus Cheilanthes, sparingly represented in the East, is a somewhat common
one in California where ten species, all distinct from the eastern, ..."
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